I'd Worry More About Global Cooling Than Global Warming

SEE HERE People are always compulsing about something. It's probably an indication of too much leisure and not enough real work to do. So manufacturing crises is a wonderful way of keeping up your anxiety level and imagining that you're doing something useful as you react to phony causes. "Green" this that and the other thing. "Sustainability" as if the status quo is all that matters. Nothing has ever been sustainable. If we focused on sustainability we'd still be in caves sharpening sticks on rocks. Then there are all the other things that are non-events to worry about like global warming when facts be known the general state of the world is much colder than it is right now. I think we need more nuclear power plants myself. If we do run out of oil we have coal for a long time. CO2 is a vital plant nutrient that if we managed to double the CO2 concentration (don't hold your breath) plants would grow much better. We may well need all the global warming we can get pretty soon now.

With luck the cooling won't settle into a new ice age, but given the history of the world, that has to start sometime. We're still a bit up in the air about all the factors that cause ice ages. You'd think before running off on a rant about global warming the scientists would bother to figure out the whole thing. Let me tell you a secret however — It's political and not scientific at all. If we scare everyone to death we can pass wonderful laws that will force everyone to pay more for energy and line the pockets of those in the in-crowd while also swelling the power of the governmental elite. Get it? That's why it's always a bad idea to waste a crisis, even a manufactured one.